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Carl Sagan Quote - Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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